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Those Redheads From Seattle is a wildly uneven movie, and sometimes a wild and woolly ride as well, especially if seen in 3-D, as it was shot and originally released. The plot is a bizarre amalgam of threadbare big studio musical, romantic comedy (and drama) seemingly drawn from such disparate sources as Little Women, Four Daughters, and Samuel Fuller's Park Row, and a bit of noirish psychology at its edges, mostly concerning the character of Johnny Kisco (Gene Barry). The latter element seems to be the work of co-screenwriter Geoffrey Homes aka Daniel Mainwaring, whose contributions help give this script some welcome (if offbeat) mood changes, as the mood shifts wildly from musical-comedy-western to dark psychological moments. All of the different parts don't hang together, but it is fun to watch -- Gene Barry tries hard in a role that would have been better suited to Kirk Douglas or Robert Mitchum; Teresa Brewer sings pretty and Rhonda Fleming looks pretty, Guy Mitchell gives it his best shot as an actor (he's no Frank Sinatra, but neither is he Tony Bennett, landing somewhere between those two poles on the thespian front). And with Agnes Moorehead doing her best to hold the parts in between together, you have an entertaining movie. but no classic. And the 3-D, at least based on the surviving prints as of 2010, was nothing to write home about either -- it's most effective in the musical and the outdoor sequences.